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Mar 4, 2019 · The Night of Terror: When Suffragists Were Imprisoned and Tortured in 1917 After peacefully demonstrating in front of the White House, 33 women endured a night of brutal beatings. By: Sarah Pruitt
- Sarah Pruitt
- 3 min
Night of Terror is a 1933 American pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall. Despite receiving top billing, Bela Lugosi has a relatively small part. The film is also known as He Lived to Kill and Terror in the Night.
Nov 10, 2017 · The suffragists dubbed their treatment Nov. 14, 1917, as the “Night of Terror,” and it helped galvanize public support of the suffrage movement.
Jul 30, 2020 · On the night of November 14, 1917, 31 suffragists and members of the National Woman’s Party (“NWP”) were taken to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and tortured and beaten. This so-called “Night of Terror” captured national headlines at the time and has been memorialized through digital sites today.
Tells the story of the seventy-two-year campaign for women's suffrage. Considered the largest reform movement in American history, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to achieving women's economic, social, and political equality.
On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse, W.H. Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists. They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head, then left her there for the night.
On November 14, 1917, more than two dozen National Woman's Party members are sentenced to serve prison time for picketing the White House in support of woman suffrage, although the official charge is "obstructing traffic." That night, the women arrive at the women's prison, the Occoquan Work House.
